diff --git a/hexpat.cabal b/hexpat.cabal
--- a/hexpat.cabal
+++ b/hexpat.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Cabal-Version: >= 1.6
 Name: hexpat
-Version: 0.20.5
+Version: 0.20.6
 Synopsis: XML parser/formatter based on expat
 Description:
   This package provides a general purpose Haskell XML library using Expat to
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@
     0.19.9 fix formatting of > character + improve performance; 0.19.10 ghc-7.4.x compatibility;
     0.20.1 fix an unfortunate crash when used in parallel processing and greatly improve
     performance; 0.20.2 make parseSaxG lazier; 0.20.3 minor build issues; 0.20.4 remove
-    dependency on extensible-exceptions; 0.20.5 bump text upper bound.
+    dependency on extensible-exceptions; 0.20.5 bump text upper bound; 0.20.6 bump text again
+    to include 1.1.0.0.
 Category: XML
 License: BSD3
 License-File: LICENSE
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@
     base >= 3 && < 5,
     bytestring,
     transformers,
-    text >= 0.5.0.0 && < 1.1.0.0,
+    text >= 0.5.0.0 && < 1.2.0.0,
     utf8-string == 0.3.*,
     deepseq >= 1.1.0.0 && < 1.4.0.0,
     containers,
diff --git a/test/hexpat-tests.cabal b/test/hexpat-tests.cabal
--- a/test/hexpat-tests.cabal
+++ b/test/hexpat-tests.cabal
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@
 
   build-depends:
     HUnit < 1.3,
-    QuickCheck >= 2.4.0.0 && < 2.6.0.0,
+    QuickCheck >= 2.4.0.0,
     base >= 3 && < 5,
     bytestring,
     containers,
     transformers,
     deepseq >= 1.1.0.0,
-    parallel >= 3.1.0.0 && < 3.3.0.0,
-    test-framework > 0.3.0,
-    test-framework-hunit == 0.2.*,
-    test-framework-quickcheck2 == 0.2.*,
+    parallel >= 3.1.0.0,
+    test-framework,
+    test-framework-hunit,
+    test-framework-quickcheck2,
     text >= 0.5,
     utf8-string >= 0.3.3,
     List >= 0.4.2,